I Spy A Letter!

My Y5's really enjoyed playing games.  It was a hands-on fun way to get all sorts of life-skills and standards covered in a short amount of time.

I designed "I Spy A Letter." with those concepts in mind, as they will help teach: Common Core State Standards:RF.K1d, L.1.1a

I Spy A Letter is a very versatile packet. Although the picture shows lowercase letter samples, the packet also works on recognizing and practicing uppercase letters in an interesting way as well.

Your students will enjoy becoming ABCDe-tives as they spy letters and then trace them.

They will also like making a slider. Sliders are simply the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet, listed vertically on two separate strips of paper.  Students slide their strip through two slits that make a viewing "window".

You can use this packet for table top worksheets, Speed games, or even as an interesting and less stressful assessment tool.

I've also included traceable upper and lowercase letter flashcards with a cover, so students can make Itty Bitty booklets, a tip sheet of what else you can do with the traceable cards, + "kaboom" bomb cards to make games even more fun.

There's an upper and lowercase  trace and write worksheet; an upper and lowercase "I Spy!" tracing game sheet, that can double as an assessment tool; + the "craftivity" upper & lowercase letter slider for girls and 1 for boys. 

These too can be a fun "I Spy!" game, or used as an assessment tool.  Finally, I've also designed an ABCDe-tective certificate of praise.

Click on the link to view/download the "I Spy A Letter" Packet.

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Hey Super Student Syllable Sleuths, Let's Go On A Word Hunt!

Some teachers like to make up packets to send home over the summer so that students don’t forget things that they learned over the year, or perhaps you need a home-school connection right now for those little ones still struggling with some of their letters.

I designed a fun activity called ABCDe-tective Home Alphabet Word Search.

Children trace the upper and lowercase letters, (you can also have them write them) and then scamper around their home looking for words that begin with each letter of the alphabet.

When they find one, they write it down in the appropriate spot.

There’s a blank space in the magnifying glass so students can write the capital letter as well.

This packet includes a letter home to parents explaining the project + a certificate of praise and an ABCDe-tective Achievement Poster to list the student’s names who complete the booklet, if you decide to do this as an all-class activity.

Click on the link to view/download the ABCDe-tective Home Alphabet Word Search Activity Packet.

If you like this activity, be sure and check out the other ABCDe-tective activity that’s a Classroom Scavenger Hunt.

It includes:

• A large magnifying glass template to make scampering around the room a bit more fun and "detective-like"
• A small magnifying glass template for locating and "framing" words, letters, shapes and numbers in books, charts, papers etc.
• Two detective badges.
• The ABCDe-tective treasure hunt list complete with picture icons.
• 26 upper and lowercase alphabet cards.
• Covers to make Itty Bitty books.
• 38 word wall "read-around-the-room" word cards.  These can also be turned into another Itty Bitty book.
• 38 picture cards.  Use these to play a Memory Match game, make pairs, put next to the words on the word wall, include in the Itty Bitty books and
• 2 certificates of praise.

Click on the link to view/download ABCDe-tective Classroom Scavenger Hunt

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